Enough people have reproduced portions of Ezra's rambling, seemingly endless statement to the Alberta Human Rights Commission that I don't have to. The link is
here, and his threat to upload the most "interesting" bits of his performance
here. Hopefully, he plays banjo or juggles or something. I'm not sure how much of this kind of scenary chewing I can take.
You are so cold-hearted. Didn't you feel the anguish, the fear, the oppression poor li'l Ezra has experienced throughout this harrowing ordeal?
ReplyDelete...Yeah, I didn't either. I stopped reading at the first appearance of the word "interrogation." If Ezra doesn't realise that using Newspeak doesn't help anyone become sensitive to the Orwellian concept of thought crime, then he is truly a very stupid human being.
But I suspect he does realise this, which makes him far more part of the problem than part of the solution.
"It is procedurally unfair. Unlike real courts, there is no way to apply for a dismissal of nuisance lawsuits. Common law rules of evidence don’t apply. Rules of court don’t apply. It is a system that is part Kafka, and part Stalin."
ReplyDeleteIt's too bad that it takes getting dragged in front of a commission for Ezra to make such an impassioned criticism of the HRC process. You'd think at some point over the past 15 years that Ezra has been an MP and later publisher that he might've given an indication he was troubled by the HRC process, but that doesn't seem to be the case. When the complaint was launched his reaction was to email people begging for subscriptions and legal funds, not to substantively criticize the process.
"I believe that this commission has no proper authority over me."
That will certainly come as news to the men - and it is virtually all men - who have been subject to the tyranny of the politically correct police since 1977. It actually reflects poorly on Ezra that this so-called libertarian ignored infringements on liberty until it finally bit him in the ass.
Noun. Verb. Muslims. That appears to be the extent of Ezra's schtick these days. Did Jaffer steal his girlfriend or something?
When the complaint was launched his reaction was to email people begging for subscriptions and legal funds, not to substantively criticize the process.
ReplyDeleteGood point (which I do remember), although not surprising.
You know, you really do need a database to catalogue Ezra Levant's utterances to document the exact nature of that man's inconsistencies and lack of principle.
BCL: head's up:
ReplyDeleteFOR much of the past century Maclean's, Canada's main newsweekly, has been as colourless as its name.
One of its star attractions is Mark Steyn, a columnist who is a sparkling, often side-splittingly funny writer and, by his own admission, “a Zionist neocon Bush shill”. Some readers added “Islamophobe” after Maclean's published an alarmist screed by Mr Steyn in October 2006 predicting, among other things, that Europe was becoming a “Eurabia” overrun by Muslim hordes, intent on jihad and sharia.
The piece, an excerpt from Mr Steyn's book “America Alone: The End Of The World As We Know It”, was notable for its simplistic demographic projections—Yemen (population 22m) will outnumber Russia (141m) by mid-century, he wrote confidently—and for the reaction it generated.
...
Much of Canada's press and many broadcasters are already noted for politically correct blandness. Some fear that the case can only make that worse.
http://www.economist.com/world/la/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10499144
Can't believe I just wrote "head's up". Need more coffee.
ReplyDeleteMuch of Canada's press and many broadcasters are already noted for politically correct blandness.
ReplyDeleteThe Canada-hating Economist has been saying this for decades now. It's just more of that sour, dismissive tone the ever-colonial English economic elite adopts when, feeling vulnerable, it needs a reason to find itself fascinating and relevant.
I wonder when it will sink in with them that Canadians don't look to elites to tell us what we think is funny or risqué or controversial, and that we'll laugh at them if they dare to start imagining that, beyond their serviceable roles as entrepreneurs, capitalists, politicians or pundits, no one really thinks they have, deep down, anything truly useful to say.
There's a reason we laugh at Conrad Black and Mark Steyn, and it's not because they're controversial. It's because they're ridiculous.
Not even bothering to hide the seething anti-Anglo Saxon hate anymore, eh TiGuy?
ReplyDeleteIt's pro-Canadian, anti-colonial, you anonymous, 5th-columnist traitor.
ReplyDeleteI check out The Economist every month. When they lower themselves to report on Canada, it usually involves an issue that is sensational but ultimately of no real import.
Like this thing with Mark Steyn. The British themselves have some pretty onerous anti-free speech legislation, not to mention the highest degree of public surveillance in the Western world.
Still mad they hung Mr. Dithers on your boy, I see. Hey, you're French: is there a good online continental French website roughly comparable to The Economist? Paris Match? Allo Police? I can read French fine and I'm always looking for new bookmarks....
ReplyDeleteWhen Ezra used the word interrogation (I read far enough to see it twice) I hope that he was being literal. Did they bring out the rubber hoses? Blow cigarette smoke in his face? Well, did they at least shine a bright light into his eyes?
ReplyDeleteWhile Ezra does the heavy lifting for all of us in the protection of our rights against fascist principles,
ReplyDeletethose on the left glibly mock him,
as though the right to freedom of expression is no more important as being able to get one's mocchacino extra frothy for that ooh so smooth taste in the morning.
While Ezra does the heavy lifting for all of us in the protection of our rights against fascist principles,
ReplyDeleteOh, cut the drama, Camille.